My husband and I had recently lived in Andoharanofotsy, 12 km in the South of Antananarivo. It’s quite far from our offices where we had to leave home at 6 am and arrived back at around 8 or 8.30 p.m. This didn’t let us have much time to prepare foods cuz we were always too tired. We then were attracted by this little shop selling “Vary amin’anana sy kitoza”. That’s a typically Malagasy food; a mixture of rice and anana (difficult to explain in English if you guys can help 🙂 ) some of my friends call it grass some other green vegetables, dictionnaries online said there’s no translation for brède – French – that we eat with smoked beef. Yammeee!
Last Friday, I was on leave and then decided to make a short video about this. Mrs Raharimalala was so enthousiatic about the report. After selling the same thing in Isotry and Ambohimanarina, with her family, they have moved in Andoharanofotsy 20 years ago. Regulars, mainly taxi be drivers and conductors, early in the morning, come and eat there. Taxi brousse drivers and travelers from Antsirabe or Ambatolampy also stop by. Saturday is the busiest day.
The Vary amin’anana sy kitoza is available from 4 a.m to around 9 p.m 24/7. Guess what? Mrs Raharimalala cooks around 40 kilos of rice and 30 kilos of beef everyday.
Enjoy the video!
9 comments
Comments feed for this article
January 12, 2010 at 6:20 am
haritia
Tsy bozaka kosa ny anana fa aza atao an’izany ny sakafonay e!
January 12, 2010 at 4:19 pm
saveoursmile
Well, hats-off
– for sharing those daily life scenes … 30 kilos of beef everyday? Mamma Mia, that’s huge
– for spending 15 hours uploading this video on youtube … That deserves a round of applause
January 12, 2010 at 7:17 pm
ariniaina
thx e 🙂
January 15, 2010 at 9:27 am
Tahina
Awwwwwweeeeesssooommme!!!!!
Great job guys. Most of the time you go eat some vary amin’anana sy kitoza after going out at night. Some say it helps with hangover 😀
I think we can say “greens” for the “ananana” 😀
January 15, 2010 at 8:56 pm
ariniaina
Thx Tahina for the awwwwwwweeeesssoommmmme comment lol … uh … for the anana’s meaning 😀
February 28, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Mitia
Hi girl, it’s been a long since I didnt reed your blog; I love this video and I wish I was with you eating 2 plates of these good foods, mampilendalenda b. ndry
September 7, 2010 at 11:05 am
ariniaina
Mitia> Tongava aty dia miaraka mihinana e 😉
February 24, 2011 at 10:09 am
Fanja
It is simple but it looks really delicious, unless in the country side where we sill use firewoods, we cannot not get such delicious smoked maet. It makes me remember my childhood I spent with my grandma
February 24, 2011 at 1:41 pm
ariniaina
Thx Fanja for stopping by 🙂
Meals cooked with firewoods are delicious. Only people who have lived in countrysides know the difference hey 😉